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Develop that inferior "F" part of you, LM! You might need it someday.

Actually, my Sensing function is the inferior one, my Feeling one is merely Tertiary. As such, I can expect it come out in ten years or so.

ISFJ here. Hey, Leoba!

I don't know if you caught this over in Manwe Lord_M, but I should be listed as an INTP.

You know, when I posted I was an INFJ in the thread in that other place, I just took the test. I never bothered to read through all the information on the site.

Well, I'm having a really slow day at work, so I read some of the articles. Boy, does that explain a lot! Especially the perfectionism. I don't think I could be more INFJ if I tried. Heh. My closet is even organized by color

The funniest part is, I married the poster child for the ENFP, and that's the type the site says is the best match for me.

Wolfgangbos wrote:

I don't know if you caught this over in Manwe Lord_M, but I should be listed as an INTP.

I did, I was just too lazy to fix it. I'll go and get round to it.

Eltirwen: Perfectionism? INFJs? That explains a lot. This INFP married an INFJ because we were so very compatible. But man oh man, is he an idealistic perfectionist. Organized, too. And on time!

Well, someone has to be.

Wampuscat, you really should go read the personality description on personalitypage. It might explain a lot of your husband's behavior. However, he's probably the hardest on himself of anyone.

And someone has to be the one on time!

Speaking of being on time, LordM, would location in the world have anything to do with personality type? I hear lots of stories about how people in the Caribbean are habitually late to everything, and I can't imagine someone like me being comfortable with that. Are there no J's down there? Or have they just learned to grimace and bear it?

True story:
A friend of mine who is a counselor was at a party and got into Myers-Briggs talk with another friend. They were discussing the conflicts a couple they knew were having, and my friend said, "Well, I really think their problem has to do with his 'P'ness."

Just as she said that, the noise level dropped, and her comment was enjoyed and misinterpreted by one and all.

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Speaking of being on time, LordM, would location in the world have anything to do with personality type?

Not personality type, although culture does affect personality. Take, for example, how being emotionally demonstrative is more acceptable in Southern Europe than in the Anglo world.

Wampuscat

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"Well, I really think their problem has to do with his 'P'ness."

It's too late to be laughing this loud!! And welcome. I know you have a welcome thread but - from one P to another P; I just can't commit to it right now

People from the Carribean are just very relaxed people in General. If you are Carribean and from a family of extremely uptight people like me then people in the Carribean think you are a bit strange.

A part of it is, you will eventually get there so don't worry to much while going to where you are going. It is a cultural thing so if you do show up late, not one is going to go after you (the bus is constantly late). The culture allows for more uh, relaxed kind of atmosphere.

ETA I took the test online at a site that Sylthian suggested. I came up ENFJ again. I am hopeless. *giggle* I will eventually read the rest of this thread and read up on the types. This is cool. I think I will ask my friends to take this.

Wampuscat wrote:

"Well, I really think their problem has to do with his 'P'ness."

Thanks for the welcome, Syl. And I know this is off-topic, but I love your photo. Our old dog adopted a stray kitten who wandered up to the house a few months ago, and they are inseparable. We had no intention of adding yet another cat, but he gave us no choice.

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming...

Lord Morningstar wrote:

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culture does affect personality. Take, for example, how being emotionally demonstrative is more acceptable in Southern Europe than in the Anglo world.

oh yes,

that's why the majority of Italians think that Brits in particular are a bunch of exceedingly repressed people.

Not me though. I personally find excessive demonstation of emotions disturbingly morbid




I remember seeing some advert on TV in England years ago. It illustrated two parallel situations. A Brit in a railway station in London and an Italian in a railway station in Milan. Both miss their train just for a matter of seconds.

The Brit is shown standing motionless with a slight frown on his face.
The Italian is shown cursing, dropping his bag violently and kicking some inexistent object.

At the time I thought that the depiction of Italians in the advert was derogatory, but it is undoubted that the two cultures differ a lot in the manner of showing emotions.

I'm not Italian but I play one in real life!!

Yet another INTJ checking in. Aren't INTJs supposed to be just 1% of population?

I took the Neo test and I did not feel that the results describe me adequately. I think the problem with that was that the question asked about a preference, for example for change vs. stability, while the score concluded that I was incapable of dealing with change. This was the only personality test in which I received extremely low and extremely high marks for certain traits. Usually I am borderline for everything. But it was certainly thought-provoking in some ways.

Here's a question. Do you think self-testing, based on the individual's perception of his/her personality, is reliable? Or would one get better results when described by someone who knows the testee well, basing the results on that person's experience with the testee's actions? I suppose in the latter case you have to deal with 2 personalities, and an introvert would probably overestimate someone else's extravertness...

Frelga wrote:

Yet another INTJ checking in. Aren't INTJs supposed to be just 1% of population?

Yes, but internet messageboards are dominated by introverted intuitives. It’s the nature of the activity.

Frelga wrote:

Here's a question. Do you think self-testing, based on the individual's perception of his/her personality, is reliable? Or would one get better results when described by someone who knows the testee well, basing the results on that person's experience with the testee's actions? I suppose in the latter case you have to deal with 2 personalities, and an introvert would probably overestimate someone else's extravertness...

I consider that both are pretty reliable, and more reliable than tests, although some types are better at typing people than others.

Northerner wrote:

ISFJ here. Hey, Leoba!

Hey, I have a twin!



When I sat down to work myself out, I employed Din as an aide to help me pick through the options in the first post. Then I ran through the test on my own. He did the same. I think it helped!